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About Support and Privacy

What is “Supporting”?
Supporting a Thunderclap campaign is like signing a petition but with the added power of simultaneously sharing a message. You and every other supporter are standing up for an idea with the power of your voice.

How do I support?
Choose between your Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr account to grant Thunderclap permission to post a message on your behalf. That’s it! If the campaign reaches its support goal by the deadline, Thunderclap will automatically post your message and all other supporters' messages at the same time.

A note on privacy
When you log into Thunderclap using your Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr account, you’re allowing our platform to share a single message on your behalf. That’s all. We use the absolute minimum permissions possible to post a message on your behalf. The platforms we integrate with sometimes include additional permissions that we do not use and we will not post anything from your friends' accounts.

Every year, the Bahraini government hopes the roar of Formula
One cars will drown out criticism for the regime’s human rights violations.
This year, the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders
asks YOU to ensure that does not happen.

Join us in calling on the government to allow journalists to
report freely in Bahrain, whether they cover changing tires on the racetrack or
burning tires on the street. Your participation in this Thunderclap will create
a social media flash mob timed to the starting gun of the F1 race on April 6,
2014, at 6 p.m. local Bahraini time/11 a.m. EST. Together, our voices will
be heard over the roar of race car engines.

The Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without
Borders have documented a consistent attempt by the Bahraini government to
censor the press since the launch of a mass protest movement on February 14,
2011. In that time, at least three news providers have been killed for
their work and many more have been subject to arrest and even torture. Many news providers remain imprisoned today. Several journalists have been forced into
exile in fear for their safety. The government has also limited access to
international journalists and human rights organizations seeking to cover the
ongoing unrest and repression in the country. Meanwhile, some protesters on the
street have assaulted journalists considered sympathetic to the
government.

With this cycle of censorship against the press, it’s clear that it’s not only
F1 cars that are racing in circles in Bahrain. By joining this campaign, help
us put a brake on press censorship. With your help, we can achieve our
goal of reaching an audience of 1.3 million people—one for every person in
Bahrain.

How to Show Your Support

At the top of the page, choose to support the campaign with Twitter, Facebook, or both.

Tell all of your friends and followers to join the campaign.

On April 6, watch as everyone’s messages are simultaneously shared at the start of the F1 race.

Continue speaking out for press freedom in Bahrain using the #F1 hashtag.

We Won't Forget Ahmed

Two years
ago this week, a bullet from an unknown gunman ended Ahmed Ismail Hassan's life
as he was filming an opposition protest near his home.

The
government has never seriously investigated Ahmed's killing. In fact, witnesses
said the government focused their interrogations on finding Ahmed's camera, not
his killer.

The government hopes by hosting
prestigious events like the Formula One this weekend, we will forget about
Ahmed.

But we
won't forget. And together we will make sure no one else will forget
either.

Already,
we have recruited more than 270 people with a reach of 2.9 million people to
join our campaign. That's an incredible achievement!

Now's the
time to push even further. We have three days left to recruit as many people as
possible to join us. Let's get this done together for Ahmed.

Tell Ahmed he is not forgotten in prison

March 28, 2014

This week, we received the terrible news that freelance
journalist Ahmed Humaidan was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The government
accuses him of assaulting a police station, but we know his real “crime” is his
work as an independent journalist.

Cases
like Ahmed's are exactly why your support for this Thunderclap campaign is so
important. In only three days, we have already made tremendous progress, with
more than 150 supporters and a potential audience of more than 2 million
people! But, with your continued engagement, we know we can make this
Thunderclap even louder.

Remember
that Twitter and Facebook are great recruitment tools, but they are not the
only ones. Send emails. Make calls. Meet people face-to-face. Explain to your
friends, families, and coworkers why you support this campaign and why they
should too.

With
that in mind, here is our challenge to each and every one of you. Recruit 10
new people to sign on to this campaign—that's one for every year of Ahmed's
sentence. Let's make sure he, and every imprisoned journalist in Bahrain, know
that they are not forgotten.